Word: singularability
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Such record-setting news scratches up a brief twitch of public interest and a flurry of deserved hurrahs. Yet the tidings of singular achievement seem less and less to arouse genuine excitement. New records come along so frequently, and in so many categories, that it is impossible to work up the appropriate celebratory mood for every one of them. The exceptional is in danger of becoming commonplace...
Dubbed the "poet's painter," Frankenthaler has been one of the leading figures in the second generation of abstract expressionist artists. Her "bleeding edge" techniques and pale, free-flowing colors have earned her a reputation as a constantly improvising but singular voice in modern art. "Her paintings have the quality of some delicate, nameless organism, which opens and closes almost imperceptibly beneath our gaze," one critic wrote...
...effort. It is a beautiful scene, thought the officer as he swept his eyes far down the horizon, taking in each airplane. He mused as a warrior, sensing not the horrors of battle that might be coming but the pride and honor the men felt to be there, the singular essence of courage that only those who do such things can fully understand...
...commonplace. Inmates murder inmates in U.S. prisons at the rate of about 100 a year. Wretched conditions just about everywhere have so persisted that the prison exposé has long been a hardy perennial of popular journalism. A voluminous genre of literature and drama has grown up around a singular theme of prison rebellions. Prison evils have been documented in thousands of articles, hundreds of books and scores of legislative reports, not to mention innumerable recapitulations by local, state, national and international investigative groups. The tale of Attica's prisoner mutiny and massacre nine years ago, though tragic because...
...Pleistocene period was the dawn of popular art. According to Historian Kevin Brownlow, it was also the sunset of the movies' frontier spirit. "Pioneers are people of exceptional energy-a quality that sets them apart," he begins. The narrative that follows is a valedictory to the singular men and women who invested and finally squandered those ergs when the hills and plains of Hollywood were still uncharted territories...